The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-07-25


certain contract what right has the s,a'c
to place It's ban upon the contract and
by a law pronounce that voluntary con
tract of none effect and voidy The state
has no such power according to True
Bluesm. Yet our state and national
governments being so imbued with anti
tyranny have passed just such laws, up
on the same principle our postal system
should be abolished and the mail system
be turned over into the hands OF mono
poles for what right say the minimizers
has the government to force parties to
contract with 1t and to forbid all persons
from contracting with individuals for
the carriage of their mail2
All factory acts and laws to protect
individuals against the grasping in
fluence, corporations and modified CAPT
tai rest upon the same basis, all laws
regulating the practice OF law and medi-
cine, regulating wills, partnership, the
transfer of homesteads and seperatc prop
erty of married women, the laws to pre-
vent frauds and perjures and all other
! laws which in any way effect, control
or forbid the free making Of contracts
by individuals are governed by the same
principle as above. What is the meas
! ire and basis OF all contracts?
The money or the medium Of exchange
of n people. Hence, the vital govern
mental question of the issuence and con-
troll of the money or circulating medium
of nation. If 1t is against individual
ism and il ii is destructive Of personal lib.
erty for the government to interfere with
the making OF contracts by and between
individuals. then it is beyond the limits Of
the state to issue or in any way supervise
and control the money of the people,
but this is rs almost everything else
should be relegated to private Enterprise.
Those who formed our government
thought otherwise and the democratic
element of this country Of whatsoever
party name hes thought so also. Hence
The contest of old against private banks
regulating and controlling the monetary
affairs of the people, and the feirce war
of President Jackson against the old
national bank, and the war against the
present National banks. To place the
purse.strngs in the hands of irresponsi-
BILE individuals and corporations would
be to great extent to give them control
over the contracts of the people, but the
government should not according TO
: True Blue theory, interfere with the
private contracts or attempt to protect
, individuals against bad money because
A party should know which bank Is
J solvent and individuals can make their
contracts payable in any kind of money
, they desire; the whole thing is voluntary
understanding on the part of the individ
, ual and it would be Il fatal stab at the
heart of personal liberty, for the govern
ment to control the individual in this
} the foundation Of all contracts.
Another result or conclusion Of this
'laisser faire" let alone theory of gov
eminent is that the state has no right to
exercise the sovereign power of taxation
| except for the purpose of direct self
, protection, public education is not for
such purpose, therefore, public educa-
| ton is beyond the sphere of state action.
, 1t holds that the state has no power or
! right to take any property to educate
) the child of my neighbor. Judge Robin
5 son and other anti speakers correctly say
that the same principle which sanctions
the strife in providing and maintaining
/ an efficient system of free public schools
also sanctions and authorizes the state
/ in prohibiting the manufacture, sale and
exchange of Intoxicating liquors, and
that for the same reason that they op-
, pose the adoption OF this amendment
they oppose public education. They
say further that learning and intelli-
[ gcnce is an idividual and private acquire.
l ment, and that government has no right
, to legislate intelligence and learning in.
, to a person. They point us to China in
order to show us the balerul effects of
5 public education. There, say they, are
the people educated to be slaves, and.
say we, for the same reason that China
educates her people to be slaves, do we
; educate our people to be freemen and to
, know and understand the nature of our
, government and to appreciate the
character of our free institutions and to
be capable of self-government. ask
you, fellow-citizens of Texas, will you
/ sanction, maintain and vote for princi
pies which will blot out and destroy the
brightest and noblest feature and the
, purest element of our free institutions?
Upon identically the same principle
neither the state nor municipality has a
, right to provide for the poor and I'M
fortunate of our people; then away with
, your public infirmaries, hospital, poor
houses and farms; your deaf and dumb,
, your blind and your lunatic asylums.
The influence of the churches, Sunday
schools and the Bible should educate
the people to sufficient extent that
their humanity would cause them to
take charge of and care for the poor
unfortunates among them. The state
say they, has no right to legislate, pity,
humanity and philanthropy into the
people. And again say they, the state
must fix its limit Of action by
self.protection, by negative as opposed
to positive regulation, the state looks